Ebook {Epub PDF} The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds

 · Alastair Reynolds’s The Prefect, despite what the cover plug says, is anything but galatic, or operatic. It doesn’t cross light years like his other Revelation Space novels. It doesn’t even cross genres. The Prefect is a sci-fi crime thriller, with a dash of horror thrown in—not a ‘space opera’/5(). In Prefect, Reynolds sets the story prior to Chasm City when the Rust Belt was at its pinnacle and known as the Glitter Band. Encompassing 10, discreet and sovereign habitats, Reynolds explores the diversity and evolution of human societal organization (from voluntary tyranny to demoncratic anarchy). Alastair Reynolds’s The Prefect, despite what the cover plug says, is anything but galatic, or operatic. It doesn’t cross light years like his other Revelation Space novels. It doesn’t even cross genres. The Prefect is a sci-fi crime thriller, with a dash of horror thrown in—not a ‘space opera’. Largely set in a single location, the /5().

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In Prefect, Reynolds sets the story prior to Chasm City when the Rust Belt was at its pinnacle and known as the Glitter Band. Encompassing 10, discreet and sovereign habitats, Reynolds explores the diversity and evolution of human societal organization (from voluntary tyranny to demoncratic anarchy). Reynolds is normally considered to be in the `space opera' sub-genre of sci-fi, although his PhD in astronomy and his day job as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency qualify him for `hard' sci-fi as well. The Prefect takes place, pre-Melding Plague, in the Revelation Space universe. Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the (ISBN).